Ever think you would live long enough to see such a stinking pile of shit?

[Elwood P Dowd]

I am 66 and was drafted during a giant pile of it called Vietnam, but what we have with the current repuke party since the 1980s is already far more damaging to the American people than that stupid war. Never, in my wildest dreams, did I think a political party would ever top what Coolidge and Hoover shit out from 1921-1933, but this bunch is trying their best.

[elleng]

1. and Worse than Watergate, even.

[Elwood P Dowd]

2. Worse than Watergate, Vietnam, and the rigged 2000 election combined.

The 3 worse economic recessions/depressions the past 84 years all happened with a repuke in the White House. Over the past 50 years, 8 of our 9 recessions happened with a repuke in the White House.

[elleng]

3. Right, they're disasters.

[Kennah]

4. Not me

I continue to cling to the belief that they will soon realize they've gone too far, and before course correcting. However, I've been thinking that for more than 2 years.

[young_at_heart]

5. At one time, I thought it could never be worse than Nixon

I'm 74 (don't remember how I got to be this old!) and have lots of memories but what I've seen lately takes the prize!!

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. My older sister is almost 74. She actually changed from repuke to Democrat in 2012.

Said she just couldn't them anymore.

[Nay]

29. I know, right?? What could be worse than that evil Nixon? Now he seems

almost quaint. I'm 62, remember quite a lot of the political situations in my lifetime, and the Republican Party these days has flown into outer space. To some nutty planet somewhere.

[Warpy]

7. I knew when Reagan put the antiabortion plank in the party platform

to bring in the Jerry Falwell followers that the party was completely sunk and it was only a matter of a few decades before they ripped the party completely apart.

And this bunch are much worse than the muzzy headed Coolidge and the too-little-too-late Hoover. They honestly don't give a shit about the country. They have been driven completely insane by a combination of right wing propaganda and trash talk from the pulpits to reinforce it.

I keep thinking this represents the death throes of that party. I just hope I'm right. I'd like to outlive the Republican Party. It's the best revenge I can think of.

[ErikJ]

16. Goldwater predicted it

[Leith]

20. This Shows Just How Far Things Have Gone

When even DUers accept Barry Goldwater as the voice of reason.

[Brigid]

31. Compared to what we are witnessing in the GOP now . . .

Goldwater was a voice of reason.

[pitbullgirl1965]

33. He wasn't all bad

He supported gays in the military, was prochoice, and hated the Christian Reich wing. I can support him on those platforms.

[Wounded Bear]

34. That's because he was an old-line Repub/Conserve...

Generally, one could at least deal with them and make reasonable compromises. That's gone now.

Although, I believe he was the one who blathered the whole "Extremism in the name of liberty is no vice...." meme, too.

[pitbullgirl1965]

36. And Einsenhower!

Warning against the M/I complex. Holy cow they've gone insane. Yes, he did say that.

[Laelth]

26. Good post, ErikJ. Thanks. n/t

-Laelth

[Warpy]

37. His finest moment came

when he wanted nothing more than to deliver a solid kick to Falwell's arse.

Well, I hope he's gotten his wish, not that I believe in any sort of afterlife.

[CrispyQ]

30. Love this!

I'd like to outlive the Republican Party. It's the best revenge I can think of.

[4bucksagallon]

8. They don't remember Vietnam they sat it out on the sidelines.

At least 99% of them did.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. All the repuke leadership my age were draft dodgers.

Limbaugh, O'Lielly, Fred Barnes, Roger Ailes, Savage, and all the other talking heads were draft dodgers.

[4bucksagallon]

12. Like I said the list is out there.

It really needs to be updated for this current fight though because guys like Gohmert aren't on it or the guy that was ridiculing the Park Ranger about the WWII memorial shutdown.
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/chickenhawks.html
http://www.nndb.com/event/806/000140386/

[Elwood P Dowd]

19. Here is an old list I had from a few years ago.

John Boner and Mitch McChinless were not that prominent back then, and neither were some of the other current crop of crooks, cowards, hypocrites, and liars in the current news. This list also includes what are called Chicken Hawks who turned 18 after the draft finally ended in 1973.

Spencer Abraham
Elliott Abrams
Ken Adelman
Roger Ailes
Lamar Alexander
George Felix Allen
Richard Keith "Dick" Armey
John Ashcroft
Harvey Leroy "Lee" Atwater
Haley Reeves Barbour
Bob Barr
Roscoe Bartlett
Robert Leroy Bartley
Joseph Linus "Joe" Barton
Charles Foster "Charlie" Bass
Gary Lee Bauer
Glenn Lee Beck
William Bennett
Richard B. Berman
Wolf Isaac Blitzer
Richard Blumenthal
Roy Blunt
John Andrew Boehner
Clint Bolick
John Bolton
Pat Boone
Neal Boortz
Max Boot
James Paul David "Jim" Bunning
George Walker Bush
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush
Carl Cameron
Kirk Thomas Cameron
Andrew "Andy" Card
Gerald Posner Carmen
Clarence Saxby Chambliss
John P.H. "Pecker Head" Chandler
Richard Bruce "Still Dick" Cheney
Thomas Leo Clancy
Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburn
Roy Cohn
Norman Bertram "Norm" Coleman
John Cornyn III
Ann Hart Coulter
Toby Keith Covel
Larry "Wide Stance" Craig
Dinesh D'Souza
Thomas Dale "Tom," "The Hammer" DeLay
Steven James Doocy
Charles Gwynne "Chuck" Douglas III
John Mathias Engler
Donald Louis Evans
Jerry Lamon Falwell
Don Feder
Douglas J. Feith
Jim Finnegan
Bryan Fischer
Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes
Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich
Rudolph Wiliam Louis "Rudy" Giuliani
Alan Gottlieb
William Franklin "Billy" Graham
William Franklin Graham
William Phillip "Phil" Gramm
Lee Greenwood
Judd Gregg
Sean Hannity
Paul Harvey
Dennis Hastert
John Edgar Hoover
Brit Hume
Asa Hutchinson
Young Timothy Hutchinson
David R. Ignatius
Laura Anne Ingraham
Frederick Walter Kagan
Robert Kagan
Joyce Kaufman
Francis Anthony Keating
Ronald Kessler
Alan Lee Keyes
Brian Kilmeade
Charles De Ganahl Koch
David Koch
William "Bill" Kristol
Jon Llewellyn Kyle
Wayne LaPierre
Michael Arthur Ledeen
Irve Lewis "Scooter" Libby
Joseph Isidore "Joe" Lieberman
David Limbaugh
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
William "Bill" Loeb III
Chester Trent Lott, Sr.
Frank I. Luntz
David Martin McIntosh
Joseph "Joe" McQuaid
Gerald McRaney
Michael Medved
John Luigi Mica
Don Nickles
Grover Glenn Norquist
Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent
William "Bill" O'Reilly
Patrick Jake "PJ" O'Rourke
Marvin Olasky
John M. Olin
Ted Olson
Richard Norman Perle
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle
Michael Reagan
Ralph Eugene Reed, Jr.
Robert James "Kid Rock" Ritchie
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson
Willard Mitt Romney
Karl Christian Rove
Marco Antonio Rubio
Antonin Gregory Scalia
Charles Joseph "Joe" Scarborough
Todd Andrew Schnitt
Melvin Floyd "Mel" Sembler
Richard Craig Shelby
Alan Kooi Simpson
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra
Willard Cleon Skousen
Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow
Britney Jean Spears
Sylvester Gardenzio "Sly" Stallone
Kenneth Winston Starr
Michael Stephen Steele
Benjamin Jeremy "Ben" Stein
Mark Steyn
David Alan Stockman
Roger Stone
Thomas Gerard "Tom" Tancredo
James Taranto
Clarence Thomas
Fred Thompson
Meldrim "Mel" Thomson
Donn Tibbetts
Clyde Anderson Tolson
Robert Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Jon Vincent Voight
Christopher "Chris" Wallace
John P. Walters
John "Duke" Wayne
John Vincent "Vin" Weber
Michael Alan "Michael Savage" Weiner
William Floyd "Bill" Weld
George Frederick Will
Walter Winchell
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz

[SoapBox]

21. whoa...what a list.

[4bucksagallon]

23. Notice that Gohmert, graduated HS in '71 and Neugebauer born in '49 are not on the list.

The list should be updated to reflect this current crop of chicken hawks/draft dodgers. I read Gohmerts wiki page and he joined in 1978, after college and after the draft ended, ensuring he would not have to serve, in Nam. The other guy Neugebauer it doesn't say why but he did not serve and he would have been subject to the draft. But of course there were those that were draftable and those that pulled strings. Like GW Shrubbery. I do wish someone would update this list there definitely is a new class of cowards and chicken hawks in Congress these days.They came in with the T'Baggers.

[Enthusiast]

24. That says a lot right there. And don't forget Dick Cheney. Well, he might be a little older.

I do not believe a single one of them was ideologically opposed to the war, they just didn't want the inconvenience and risk in their lives. That's why they are called chickenhawks.

[grantcart]

10. Its got me so upset that everywhere I go Harvey does with me.

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. I just drank a cool one for Harvey.

He is still depressed that Jimmy Stewart turned out to be a repuke. One of the few nice ones but still a repuke.

[fNord]

11. Why not?

I was alive when the three most powerful men in the world were named: Bush, Dick, & Colin.

I am now certain that we are living in a low camp novella

[ffr]

14. It's what we get from low information voters

Faux tells them to vote one way. Faux promotes certain candidates. Koch Bros dump $236m into the process to grease the wheels and make it happen. This is the result.

A steaming pile.

[BillyRibs]

15. In 1999, the day after the

repeal of the Glass-Stigal act, I sat down at a friends basement bar and commented. "They really want a 2ed Great Depression don't they?" his response, "Sure looks that way don't it!?" IOW Yes I did, few would listen, but the tell tail signs were their.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Yes, been blogging about it for ten years

[jwirr]

18. No. I am 72 and I remember setting at the table one thanksgiving day with my family who are

all of German descent and talking about WWII in which we had members in the armed services. I remember assuring them that we would not see that because we had a strong constitution. I also told them that FDR had made sure we would not see another Great Depression because of various laws he had enacted.

Little did I know that a movie actor named raygun and a no cattle cowboy from Texas would come along and then the teabaggers would finish the work these two had begun. I do not need to tell many of you that I am afraid. All that stands between us and those fears is a President who in the past has been all too ready to compromise with the very people trying to take this country down.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. They've always been a bunch of frauds....

They're just not as good at hiding it as they used to be.

We can thank the Internet for that. How many times did you read the paper when it was tossed in the yard?

[B Calm]

25. The impeachment of President Clinton was just as bad!

[bemildred]

27. Never. nt

[BlueToTheBone]

28. Yes. I'm your age

and we used to tell each other that we were here to see the curtain close. Little did I realize that would mean tearing down the rafters.

[Brigid]

32. I'm 55.

And unless we can get the Repugs so far out of power that they can't even smell it, I expect to watch this country completely collapse by the time I'm pushing up daisies.

[pitbullgirl1965]

35. No. I'm 48

and I remember to the day the Moral Majority forming and joining the GOP. I thought they'd never last. I believed we'd still continue on the progressive trajectory of the 70's.
Instead, President Ford was the last sane, prochoice Republican, (and likable! First Lady Betty Ford was all sorts of awesome and barrier breaking.) Jimmy Carter was voted out and the monstrous Reagan was in. And here we are.